- From: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:58:48 +0000
- To: Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com>
- Cc: "'Tab Atkins Jr.'" <jackalmage@gmail.com>, public-html@w3.org
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 00:00 -0400, Justin James wrote: > I really think that answer completely ignores the fundamental issue > that these folks have. To make it clear, they are extremely angry that > the *current* HTML efforts ignore this kind of work. They want a way > to do things in a valid, conforming, and "approved" fashion in a > current standard, that does not require all sorts of hoops to jump > through. Then this is perhaps an issue they should have raise while it was still being decided in the mid-1990s. Presentational HTML was deprecated by the HTML 4.0 recommendation, finalised over 11.5 years ago. HTML 3.2, HTML 4.0 Transitional, HTML 4.01 Transitional and XHTML 1.0 Transitional all include support for presentational elements and attributes, and will continue to work as expected for the foreseeable future. If these people of whom you speak want to continue to follow their current practices, and are not interested in changing their style of markup, why would they want to learn a whole new version of HTML (HTML5) anyway? -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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